Cistercian Abbey of Corcomroe, County Galway, Ireland. The presbytery has a fine sedile [plural of sedilia] inset into its northern (left) face, together with the effigy of king Conor na Suidane O'Brien (d. 1267), grandson of the founder. The roof bearing some finely carved rib vaulting in the Romanesque style, while the capitals are decorated with leaves of the lotus plant and other botanical species. Corcomroe is the only Irish abbey where some preparatory drawings survive: they are to be found incised on a surface of plaster on two walls within the church. The carving is in the style of transitional work from Late Romanesque to Gothic, termed the "School of the West" style, in the abbeys of Boyle. The term “School of the West” was coined by Harold Leask to a group of a dozen churches built west of the River Shannon in the first half of the 13th century which have architectural details that cannot be found in contemporary buildings in the rest of Ireland. In some ways this term has been used to stress the conflict between ‘native’ Cistercian houses and those founded by the Anglo-Norman invaders and the vernacular and Cistercian influence in the west of Ireland abbeys. At Corcomroe, and also at Boyle, there is such as degree of non-conformity that it must have been more than a rare example of an individual stone mason's creativity.